Toxic movie - spoiler filled thread....- Page 13

Originally posted by: Clochette

Imtiaz Ali used this Rumi words in Rockstar, too. However reading all your posts, I got the feeling that in this movie, the sense is even more intense than in Rockstar.

Of course I know ❤️ I'm a big admirer of Rockstar too. There's something about forbidden love that makes it inexplicably desirable to me lol.

I think those Rumi lines hold true for both Heer-Jordan and Raya-Nadia, but in very different ways.

In Rockstar, the idea is explicit. The entire film is built around Heer and Jordan..their love, separation, longing and destruction. You are constantly aware that this is the heart of the story.

With Toxic, Toxic is much more restrained. Raya and Nadia's love is embedded within a much larger story of crime, family, guilt and psychological destruction even though they are one of the most important part emotionally And the film doesn't spoon-feed their love to you. It leaves little fragments-looks, silences, touches, conversations and expects you to put them together.You have to read it through glances, pauses, fragments of dialogue and the choices they make...

Maybe that's why, for me, the Rumi idea feels even more haunting here.Toxic makes you quietly discover two people who found their own little world in each other and then lost it leaving you with "what ifs" ...